Word Meanings - AMBITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton. 2. An eager, and sometimes

Additional info about word: AMBITION

especially of candidates for office is Rome, to solicit votes (hence, 1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. used no ambition to commend my deeds. Milton. 2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels. Shak. The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMBITION)

• Aspiration
• Longing
• desire
• aim
• wish
• craving
• ambition
• endeavor
• hope
• appetition
• effort
• eagerness

Related words: (words related to AMBITION)

• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• LONGIPALP
  One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
• LONGSPUN
  Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
• LONGSOME
  Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
• LONGULITE
  A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
• LONGSHORE
  Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
• LONGIMETRY
  The art or practice of measuring distances or lengths. Cheyne.
• LONG
  Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30. Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound adjectives which are mostly of obvious
• LONG-STOP
  One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
• AMBITIONIST
  One excessively ambitious.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• ASPIRATION
  1. The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins. 2. The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration. 3. The act
• LONGSPUR
  Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius , and allied genera. The Lapland longspur , the chestnut-colored longspur , and other species, inhabit the United States.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• LONG-WAISTED
  1. Having a long waist; long from the armpits to the armpits to the bottom of the waist; -- said of persons. 2. Long from the part about the neck or shoulder, or from the armpits, to the bottom of the weist, or to the skirt; -- said of garments;
• LONGHEADED
  Having unusual foresight or sagacity. -- Long"-head`ed*ness, n.
• LONGE
  1. A thrust. See Lunge. Smollett. 2. The training ground for a horse. Farrow.
• LONGBEAK
  The American redbellied snipe ; -- called also long-billed dowitcher.
• LONG-ARMED
  Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.
• LONGIPENNES
  A group of longwinged sea birds, including the gulls, petrels, etc.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• OBLONGLY
  In an oblong form.
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• PLONGE
  To cleanse, as open drains which are entered by the tide, by stirring up the sediment when the tide ebbs.
• NIGHTLONG
  Lasting all night.
• OBLONG-OVATE
  Between oblong and ovate, but inclined to the latter.